Last year my poetry project was to write an english poem a day and this year I decided to step it a bit and did two projects in two languages. One was to write an english poem every day for 30 days just like last year and the second was to take a poem by an international poet that is already translated to English and … Continue reading 2016 National Poetry Month Experience
Today is Day 30 of the National Poetry Month and after 29 days of daily poetry writing we call it a day today. Here is the last poem of the month Long live the shadow ——————- In a shiver there is a story that cannot be retold not even in thoughts the shiver is the aftermath of a memory that always lurks behind your shadow … Continue reading Long live the shadow – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day30
Tell me why the raindrops feel a speck of love in every human heart beat. Tell me how the summer feels a bit of the chill when windows open into the wild. Tell me that the music does feel sad looking at world’s war machinery cry victory. Tell me when a poetry stumbles on a tear drop and falls into the ocean. Tell me what … Continue reading Tell me that you will – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day29
I took half day off cooked a few delicacies as authentic as my poor skills can perform the table was neatly arranged as neatly my cluttered mind could do first she came and then after some time he came like there was nothing new glasses were filled they rattled cheers without spilling a drop laughs, talks and laughs again time rolled into the night Life … Continue reading Serving a Losing Dinner – National Poetry Month 2016 Day-28
see, hear, feel the dew drop singing trying to tell us the forgotten tale of a drought that turned man against man when the darkness cries in the belly of the animal man lights up the cave the desert buries its heroes next to the anti-heroes while victims mourn for no one babies think technology gave them birth, while parents search for the ON button Continue reading Variations of a world – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day27
He opened the door and walked out he had two poems with him a poem of pain in his left pocket and a poem of hope in the right pocket in the back pocket he kept a letter he walked at a pace he had forgotten for so long the road did not know how to tell him the way so he went about look … Continue reading Poetry under the neon lights – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day26
Poetry month is not complete without a haiku, or a few haikus beaten in life now silent the broken drum old sweaters play cupboard games awaiting winter Skip walking today and tomorrow run for life You can decide fair enough It’s my haiku Continue reading Haikus – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day25
The little box of chocolates I was denied as a kid has grown so big burdening and obstructing an already obscure adulthood Chocolates colored with little hands wrapped into rainbow colored papers by little fingers that aimed to one day draw a map on the clouds Maps that can take you places, but then you let that sweet turn into bitterness and slowly savor them all you … Continue reading My Little Chocolate Box – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day24
When it is time you find it difficult but then some things are tough like taking a thorn from you leg when you are a kid it pains more than how much it hurt when struck but you have no choice you have to go over the pain to reduce the past hurt life gives you things and then you lose it a nature of … Continue reading When the time comes – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day23
It is the childhood that walks next to us it tries hard to hold our hand and walk but we are the adulthood, we know better we shrug it away and run the childhood stops behind and shouts out “where are you running to?” adulthood is a master of deception deception of oneself more than others it just shouts without looking back “You slow me … Continue reading Catching up with Childhood – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day22
Vinod Narayan 